This is really great but where are the Thousand charging stations going to be mostly located in the East seeing that the company of energy is from Quebec I am suspicious that very little of that 7 million will reach the West Coast. The article is very vague and doesn't give any details at all

PluggedIn wrote:It does say "across the nation"... so should have a positive effect everywhere. It's a move in the right direction - another 1000 charging stations will be a significant improvement.

Across the nation - the prairie provinces are not getting on the EV change. So we have Quebec, Ontario and BC who see the importance of having EV's but have to share the charging stations with provinces who aren't even offering tax incentives or rebates on electric vehicle purchases

It's a real chicken-and-egg situation. Part of the incentive to purchase an electric vehicle comes from the availability of charging stations. So one way to build interest is to make charging more available everywhere. It's hard to expect interest to grow without the infrastructure available.